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The Motley Fool September 30, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Cable Conglomerates and Cuckoo Clocks Liberty Media gets a foothold in Switzerland. Investors should be aware that this is a relatively new cable company.
BusinessWeek October 10, 2005 Carol Matlack	HP's French Twist Why Hewlett Packard's plan to lay off 1,200 in France has reverberated all the way up to President Chirac's office.
Bank Systems & Technology September 29, 2005 Maria Bruno-Britz	People Who Need People (And Their Money) Imagine if private citizens in search of loans were able to go online and receive their money from lenders - who just so happen to be private citizens as well? This unlikely concept actually is being put into action in the U.K. by a company called Zopa.
The Motley Fool September 28, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	A Gazprom Date Putin takes another step forward in bringing more of Russia's energy assets under government control. From the looks of it, Gazprom is getting a good deal. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool September 27, 2005 Rich Smith	Cleaning House at Russia's Banks Roughly 20% of Russia's banks are slated to go out of business. After the cleaning of banking houses has run its course, Russian depositors should feel much more secure entrusting their savings to the surviving banks, to the benefit of whomever it is that owns them.
The Motley Fool September 26, 2005 Tim Beyers	Mr. Softy Goes to Madison Avenue Microsoft finally enters the search advertising business. The service kicks off in France and Singapore and will expand globally.
Wall Street & Technology September 23, 2005 Anthony Guerra	Follow the Leader The U.K.'s Financial Services Authority (FSA) finally issued its soft-dollar guidelines. Will the SEC take a page out of what the FSA has done? Probably.
The Motley Fool September 23, 2005 Seth Jayson	We Are All French It's easy to find flaws in the French response to HP layoffs, but look closer to home, too. Government-mandated inflexibility only hurts economies and citizens in the long run. The greed doesn't go away.
The Motley Fool September 21, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Mixed Signals From Nokia A handset for emerging markets is a go, but Nokia's delaying a musical phone. Investors may have some reason to be nervous about the company's lineup and timing.
InternetNews September 20, 2005 Tim Gray	Microsoft in Trouble With EU Again? Redmond could be facing another round of tough sanctions from the European Commission.
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